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Garden Layout Derailments
Tim has a garden layout and has a problem with derailments. Would anyone like to give him some suggestions:
“I have a garden layout G scale and I used preformed track and the train keeps derailing on one corner. Does anyone know how can I fix the problem with my garden layout?”
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Tim, I don’t have G scale experience but do have a lot of HO experience with modules. My recommendation is to get down and carefully watch the train as it comes into the spot where it seems to derail and play detective. At a module show this past weekend I found my 2-10-2 steamer was constantly derailing at a turnout. The problem turned out not to be the turnout nor the engine, but some track before the turnout which was out of gauge which caused the lead driver to derail. This derailed lead driver would pick the turnout causing the derailment. My recommendation is to start looking carefully at the site of the derailment and then work backwards to see what’s derailing and then why it’s derailing. Good hunting Sherlock Holmes! John H.